Tesla Motors

This is the new Tesla Model X, the American firm’s third car and the world’s first electric SUV. Sharing many of its underpinnings with its smaller sibling, the Model S, the new X is revolutionary in terms of design, electric battery technology and futuristic cabin features. It doesn’t have any direct rivals, but premium SUVs […]

Tesla is set to bring its electric car technology to a more affordable end of the market with this, the Model 3, the smallest and cheapest model in the range. You need to spend at least £59,035 to get hold of a Model S, which is not small change by anyone’s standards, even if it […]

Now, CNN has interviewed several current and former Tesla employees, all of whom say they raised significant safety concerns during Autopilot development—only to be dismissed by CEO Elon Musk. Tesla has had a tough couple of months defending its Autopilot advanced cruise control feature. The semi-autonomous technology has been linked to a crash that killed […]

At a tech conference in early June, Musk said that his team would need six more weeks to finalize the Model 3’s design. Apparently, now the affordable electric car is finally finalized. The Tesla Model 3 that Elon Musk first showed off in April (pictured above) is not the Model 3 that will eventually reach […]

Musk decided to think small due to limited funds and because, in his own words, “I thought our chances of success were so low that I didn’t want to risk anyone’s funds in the beginning but my own. Starting a car company is idiotic, and an electric car company is idiocy squared.” When Elon Musk […]

In it, he said it was the company’s goal to use money it made building the Roadster to make a luxury sedan, the Model S, and use the money from that to make an even more affordable car, the Model 3. Musk has teased a new “Master Plan” over the last few weeks, and after […]

Following his “Master Plan” tweet (which caused Tesla stock to jump 4 percent), Musk has revealed that the Model X 60D can be purchased for a mere $74,000. That’s about $9,000 less than the Model-X 75D. The price drop announcement may be a smokescreen from Tesla for all the news surrounding recent autopilot accidents and […]

That doesn’t mean the technology isn’t advancing at a rapid rate. In fact, as early as next year we might have the first car on sale with “Level 3” autonomous capability. The recent death of driver in a Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S that crashed while in Autopilot mode is a good reminder that autonomous […]

We had our doubts about Atieva’s claims, until we saw a video of the Atieva test mule beating out a Ferrari California T and a Tesla Model S at a drag race. Neither of these cars are slow—the Ferrari has 553 horsepower, while the Tesla, in its highest spec, creates 762 horsepower from its combined […]

As good at the 1.08 stat is, I can come up with a better one: 0.76 fatalities per 100 million miles driven. Is that the fatality rate for Germany, where nobody ever passes in the right lane, there is barely any distracted driving, and everybody who has a license is basically as good a driver […]